Zhou GOT to be zhitting me!

Some folks at the University of Oregon are cooking up new pronouns. ze and hir. Linguistics major Pira Kelley describes them this way:

"For those who are not familiar with ze/hir, it is used rather than she/her or he/him/his for some people who identify outside of a man/woman dichotomy."

I, for one, welcome this addition to 21st century doubleplus goodspeak, and I suggest adding the second person pronoun zhou.  I predict this will quickly become the latest codeword for someone of nontraditional sexual orientation, replacing metrosexual, which replaced g-a-y a while back.

Thanks to Joanne Jacobs  for spotting this one.